Moral Geographies: Social Science and the Urban Environment in Mid-Nineteenth Century England

Driver, Felix

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“…To this end, we argue that mapping the international flows of e-waste is a preliminary step towards charting what might be understood as the 'moral geographies' of the international trade and traffic of electronic waste. Moral geographies describe a thrust of research that understands moral ordering as a spatial practice embedded in uneven power relations (Driver 1988;Law 1994;Sack 1997;Smith 2000;Cutchin 2002;Bauman 2004). In the polarized debates about the positive or negative impacts of economic globalization as a form of moral ordering (Sen 1999;Kaplinsky 2000;Stiglitz 2003), it is easy to lose sight of the fact that actual human experiences of such ordering rarely fit into dichotomies like 'positive' or 'negative', 'good' or 'bad' (Cresswell 1996;Chavez 2004;Lindquist 2004;Bunnell et al 2006).…”

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Mapping international flows of electronic waste

Lepawsky

Mcnabb

2010

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Mapping international flows of electronic waste

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Mcnabb

2010

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…Cresswell 1996Cresswell , 2005Driver 1988;Matless 1998). In previous work, I have explored how moral geographies were embedded in the contours of British uniformed youth movements, primarily through their ideological construction of duty-bound 'good citizens' to unify and distinguish between different groups of young people and their behaviour (Mills 2014).…”

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“…Cresswell 1996Cresswell , 2005Driver 1988), it remains an incredibly important framework, particularly in the context of studying young people's geographies (e.g. Aitken 2001;Valentine 1996;Kyle 2007).…”

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Jives, jeans and Jewishness? Moral geographies, atmospheres and the politics of mixing at the Jewish Lads’ Brigade & Club 1954–1969

Mills

2016

Environ Plan D

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This paper examines a series of anxieties about mixing at the Jewish Lads’ Brigade and Club (JLB & C) in Manchester, UK during the 1950s and 1960s, primarily focused on inter-faith activities, relationships and marriages. This paper explores how a powerful moral geography of gender and religion came to be shaped, regulated and negotiated at this youth work space. The concerns expressed by some adults over teenage encounters in the post-war city were articulated and understood through the notion of ‘atmospheres’, and this paper suggests how this idea and language captured some of the anxieties and emotions surrounding cultures of leisure at this time. This paper contributes an in-depth and sustained focus on the moral geographies of the post-war city in relation to young people, as well as addressing an important gap in scholarship on Jewish youthful religiosities. Furthermore, it pushes at ideas about meaningful encounters through the consideration of the JLB & C as a meeting space and arena for visitors. Overall, the paper examines how the JLB & C acted as both a mirror to the wider social changes of the post-war era, while also being an active contributor in shaping those same processes of social change.

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“…As early as the midnineteenth century, according to geographer Felix Driver, English social scientists became convinced that certain undesirable behaviours could simply be mapped onto particular urban environments. 12 Although such thinking focused squarely on the 'swarms' of working-class people living in crowded slums, the educated middle class were also susceptible to the deleterious effects of urban life. 13 Following the American Civil War, neurasthenia became a popular disorder for overworked professionals, office workers and socialites, especially those living in cities.…”

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Remembering the West End: social science, mental health and the American urban environment, 1939–1968

Ramsden

Smith

2017

Urban History

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ABSTRACT:Analysing the urban renewal of Boston's West End during the 1950s, we examine how psychiatrists, social scientists and urban planners understood the relationship between the urban environment and mental health. For psychiatrist Erich Lindemann, the West End offered a unique opportunity to study how acute stress and loss affected populations, thus contributing to social psychiatry, which sought to prevent mental illness by addressing factors in the social and physical environment. While Lindemann's project provided a sophisticated response to the often simplistic arguments about the cities and mental health, it also highlighted the challenges of applying social psychiatric theory in practice.

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Moral Geographies: Social Science and the Urban Environment in Mid-Nineteenth Century England

Cited by 177 publications

References 4 publications

Mapping international flows of electronic waste

Mapping international flows of electronic waste

Jives, jeans and Jewishness? Moral geographies, atmospheres and the politics of mixing at the Jewish Lads’ Brigade & Club 1954–1969

Remembering the West End: social science, mental health and the American urban environment, 1939–1968

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